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Russian Thinkers

Author Isaiah Berlin
Introduction by Aileen Kelly
Edited by Henry Hardy, Aileen Kelly
Paperback
$18.00 US
Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
On sale Mar 25, 2008 | 448 Pages | 9780141442204
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A unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture

Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, "the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world."

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Sir Isaiah Berlin, O.M., was born in Riga, Latvia in 1909. He moved to England in 1919. His achievements as an historian and exponent of ideas earned him the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes, and his lifelong defence of civil liberties earned him the Jerusalem Prize. He died in 1997. View titles by Isaiah Berlin

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A unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture

Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, "the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world."

Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Sir Isaiah Berlin, O.M., was born in Riga, Latvia in 1909. He moved to England in 1919. His achievements as an historian and exponent of ideas earned him the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes, and his lifelong defence of civil liberties earned him the Jerusalem Prize. He died in 1997. View titles by Isaiah Berlin

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